by charliezegers | Jan 14, 2012 | SEO, Social Media
Working out of my home as I do, I was initially hesitant to list ctzdesign as a business in directories like Google Places. That put me at a disadvantage when it came to search placement, but that was a sacrifice I was willing to make to maintain a modicum of privacy....
by charliezegers | Dec 14, 2011 | SEO
Too awesome not to share… from the good folks at Search Engine Land: I’m taking time off from wrapping all those iPhone 4s and Kindle Fires to lodge some requests with the search community from Kris Kringle. I’ve been good to you over the years and it is time...
by charliezegers | May 13, 2011 | Content, SEO, Uncategorized
This article from The Atlantic has been making the rounds among all my geek/writer/geeky writer friends. It’s no surprise that the ideas come quickly. After all, these people write clever headlines for a living. But the task has a new sense of urgency. If all...
by charliezegers | Apr 21, 2011 | E-commerce, SEO, Uncategorized, WordPress
One of the big phone companies in my area has been running an incessant ad campaign for their website builder service. The gist of it is, “Unless your company is on the web, it might as well be invisible.” Thing is, that’s not actually true. And the...
by charliezegers | Mar 15, 2011 | SEO, Uncategorized
Joost de Valk has an interesting post today on why it’s a bad idea to auto-generate meta-descriptions for your blog posts: The reason I hate this “auto generation” idea so much, especially for content sites, is that it makes people think that SEO is...
by charliezegers | Feb 15, 2011 | SEO, Services, Uncategorized
Until recently, JC Penney was the most dominant retailer in search engine optimization – SEO, in geek-speak – showing up in Google’s coveted number-one spot for all sorts of keywords, from “Samsonite luggage” to “area rugs” to...